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Altogether, we installed 28 tanks, which can accommodate a whopping 793,000 gallons of beer. This additional capacity will bolster our total production and take some strain off of our brewery in Chico. While much smaller in scale, our North Carolina brewery will be an important key to our production.

New Belgium is building its East Coast brewery in Asheville too. The number 2 and 3 craft brewers came to town, but New Belgium has yet to break ground. While Sierra Nevada is quietly charging ahead, New Belgium is stumbling. In fact, a year after they announced that Asheville was the location of their new brewery, they still have no full-time employees in Asheville. While Sierra Nevada is installing fermenting tanks, New Belgium has a dozen guys pulling nails out of boards from old tobacco warehouses.